Knockdown trestle



Feb. 26 1924.

c. H. DAVIS KNOGKDOWN TRESTLE Filed April 23 1921 Patented Feb. 26, 11924.-

umren sra'ras rare H. DAVIS, OF GLOUSTER, OHIO.

KNOCKDOWN TRESTLE.

Application filed April 23, 1921. Serial No. 463,843.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. DAVIS, a citizen of the United States of America, residin at Glouster, in the county of Athens and tate of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Knockdown Trestles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a knockdown or folding trestle for the use to of mechanics such as carpenters whereby it is adapted to be reduced when not in use to such a form as to render it easily transportable from one point of use to another and to be stored within the minimum space when not required; and with this object in view the invention consists in a construction and combination ofparts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein I Figure 1 is a perspective view of a trestle embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is an end view partly in section of the same and showing in dotted lines the folded position of the brace.

The trestle as in the ordinary construction embodies the standards or legs 10 which are ivotally connected-to a tie bar 11 and may e extended above the same to form the inwardly roughened or serrated jaws 12, said 88 legs or standards being connected below the plane of the tie bar by transverse holding braces 13 each ofwhich consists ofthe members 13 and 13 jointed as at 14, a rule joint or its equivalent being preferred in this connection, with the arm 13 terminally pivoted as b means of a staple 15 to one of the stan ards while th reduced free end of the arm 13 is adapted for engagement selective- .ly with sockets or seats 16 formed in a plate 17 secured to the inner surface of the opposite standard or'leg. Obviously in engaging and disengaging the brace the joint between the members thereof should be broken upwardly as indicated in Figure 2 of the drawing, and when the device is not in use the brace may be folded into substantial parallelism with the legs or standards which in turn may be arranged in substantially parallel relation to adapt the device to be stored in a comparatively small space or to be readily acked for transportation.

Having escribed the invention what is claimed as new and useful is z--- The combination with the standards of a trestle pivotally connected, of a brace comprising members pivotally connected by a rule joint, the one extremity of one member bein pivotallv' connected to one of said stan ards, a socket plate provided with a plurality of sockets or seats, said plate being. 00 disposed on the other standard in facing relation with said brace, the extremity of the other member of id brace being adapted for selective engagement in any of said seats or sockets for the purpose specified.

- In testimony whereof he aflixes his signa ture. l

CHARLES H. DAVIS. 

